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commit d2237d35748e7f448a9c2d9dc6a85ef637466e24 upstream.
Renato Westphal noticed that since commit a2835763e130c343ace5320c20d33c281e7097b7
"rtnetlink: handle rtnl_link netlink notifications manually" was merged
we no longer send a netlink message when a networking device is moved
from one network namespace to another.
Fix this by adding the missing manual notification in dev_change_net_namespaces.
Since all network devices that are processed by dev_change_net_namspaces are
in the initialized state the complicated tests that guard the manual
rtmsg_ifinfo calls in rollback_registered and register_netdevice are
unnecessary and we can just perform a plain notification.
Tested-by: Renato Westphal <renatowestphal@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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dev_forward_skb loops an skb back into host networking
stack which might hang on the memory indefinitely.
In particular, this can happen in macvtap in bridged mode.
Copy the userspace fragments to avoid blocking the
sender in that case.
As this patch makes skb_copy_ubufs extern now,
I also added some documentation and made it clear
the SKBTX_DEV_ZEROCOPY flag automatically instead
of doing it in all callers. This can be made into a separate
patch if people feel it's worth it.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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No need to use int, its uses are boolean.
May save a few bytes one day.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It is not used anywhere except net/core/dev.c now.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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vlan_features contains features inherited from underlying device.
NETIF_SOFT_FEATURES are not inherited but belong to the vlan device
itself (ensured in vlan_dev_fix_features()).
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Just add GSO to vlan_features initialization, and update comments.
When we set offload features, vlan_dev_fix_features() will do more check.
In vlan_dev_fix_features(), final features is decided by
features of real device and vlan_features of real device.
Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch adds a change sequence counter to each net namespace
which is bumped whenever a netdevice is added or removed from
the list. If such a change occurred while a link dump took place,
the dump will have the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set in the first
message which has been interrupted and in all subsequent messages
of the same dump.
Note that links may still be modified or renamed while a dump is
taking place but we can guarantee for userspace to receive a
complete list of links and not miss any.
Testing:
I have added 500 VLAN netdevices to make sure the dump is split
over multiple messages. Then while continuously dumping links in
one process I also continuously deleted and re-added a dummy
netdevice in another process. Multiple dumps per seconds have
had the NLM_F_DUMP_INTR flag set.
I guess we can wait for Johannes patch to hit net-next via the
wireless tree. I just wanted to give this some testing right away.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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There are enough instances of this:
iph->frag_off & htons(IP_MF | IP_OFFSET)
that a helper function is probably warranted.
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn-rxon.c
drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/pci.c
net/netfilter/ipvs/ip_vs_core.c
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Testing of VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR does not belong in vlan_untag
but rather in vlan_do_receive. Otherwise the vlan header
will not be properly put on the packet in the case of
vlan header accelleration.
As we remove the check from vlan_check_reorder_header
rename it vlan_reorder_header to keep the naming clean.
Fix up the skb->pkt_type early so we don't look at the packet
after adding the vlan tag, which guarantees we don't goof
and look at the wrong field.
Use a simple if statement instead of a complicated switch
statement to decided that we need to increment rx_stats
for a multicast packet.
Hopefully at somepoint we will just declare the case where
VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR is cleared as unsupported and remove
the code. Until then this keeps it working correctly.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This change is meant to remove all support for displaying an ntuple as
strings via ETHTOOL_GRXNTUPLE. The reason for this change is due to the
fact that multiple issues have been found including:
- Multiple buffer overruns for strings being displayed.
- Incorrect filters displayed, cleared filters with ring of -2 are displayed
- Setting get_rx_ntuple displays no rules if defined.
- Endianess wrong on displayed values.
- Hard limit of 1024 filters makes display functionality extremely limited
The only driver that had supported this interface was ixgbe. Since it no
longer uses the interface and due to the issues mentioned above I am
submitting this patch to remove it.
v2:
Updated based on comments from Ben Hutchings
- Left ETH_SS_NTUPLE_FILTERS in code but commented on it being deprecated
- Removed ethtool_rx_ntuple_list and ethtool_rx_ntuple_flow_spec_container
- Left ETHTOOL_GRXNTUPLE but commented it as deprecated
Also cleaned up set_rx_ntuple since there is no flow spec container to
maintain we can drop all the code for the alloc and free of it and just
return ops->set_rx_ntuple().
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Frank Blaschka reported :
<quote>
During heavy network load we turn off/on cpus.
Sometimes this causes a stall on the network device.
Digging into the dump I found out following:
napi is scheduled but does not run. From the I/O buffers
and the napi state I see napi/rx_softirq processing has stopped
because the budget was reached. napi stays in the
softnet_data poll_list and the rx_softirq was raised again.
I assume at this time the cpu offline comes in,
the rx softirq is raised/moved to another cpu but napi stays in the
poll_list of the softnet_data of the now offline cpu.
Reviewing dev_cpu_callback (net/core/dev.c) I did not find the
poll_list is transfered to the new cpu.
</quote>
This patch is a straightforward implementation of Frank suggestion :
Transfert poll_list and trigger NET_RX_SOFTIRQ on new cpu.
Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This interface uses a temporary buffer, but for no real reason.
And now can generate warnings like:
net/sched/sch_generic.c: In function dev_watchdog
net/sched/sch_generic.c:254:10: warning: unused variable drivername
Just return driver->name directly or "".
Reported-by: Connor Hansen <cmdkhh@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Because there is a possibility that skb is kfree_skb()ed and zero cleared
after ndo_start_xmit, we should not see the contents of skb like skb->len and
skb->dev->name after ndo_start_xmit. But trace_net_dev_xmit does that
and causes panic by NULL pointer dereference.
This patch fixes trace_net_dev_xmit not to see the contents of skb directly.
If you want to reproduce this panic,
1. Get tracepoint of net_dev_xmit on
2. Create 2 guests on KVM
2. Make 2 guests use virtio_net
4. Execute netperf from one to another for a long time as a network burden
5. host will panic(It takes about 30 minutes)
Signed-off-by: Koki Sanagi <sanagi.koki@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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If the device passed into dev_disable_lro is a vlan, then repoint the dev
poniter so that we actually modify the underlying physical device.
Signed-of-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: davem@davemloft.net
CC: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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synchronize_rcu() is very slow in various situations (HZ=100,
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n)
Extract from my (mostly idle) 8 core machine :
synchronize_rcu() in 99985 us
synchronize_rcu() in 79982 us
synchronize_rcu() in 87612 us
synchronize_rcu() in 79827 us
synchronize_rcu() in 109860 us
synchronize_rcu() in 98039 us
synchronize_rcu() in 89841 us
synchronize_rcu() in 79842 us
synchronize_rcu() in 80151 us
synchronize_rcu() in 119833 us
synchronize_rcu() in 99858 us
synchronize_rcu() in 73999 us
synchronize_rcu() in 79855 us
synchronize_rcu() in 79853 us
When we hold RTNL mutex, we would like to spend some cpu cycles but not
block too long other processes waiting for this mutex.
We also want to setup/dismantle network features as fast as possible at
boot/shutdown time.
This patch makes synchronize_net() call the expedited version if RTNL is
locked.
synchronize_rcu_expedited() typical delay is about 20 us on my machine.
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 20 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 16 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 20 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
synchronize_rcu_expedited() in 18 us
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In the old days, we used to access dev->master in __netif_receive_skb()
in a rcu_read_lock section.
So one synchronize_net() call was needed in netdev_set_master() to make
sure another cpu could not use old master while/after we release it.
We now use netdev_rx_handler infrastructure and added one
synchronize_net() call in bond_release()/bond_release_all()
Remove the obsolete synchronize_net() from netdev_set_master() and add
one in bridge del_nbp() after its netdev_rx_handler_unregister() call.
This makes enslave -d a bit faster.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
CC: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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When one macvlan device is dismantled, we can avoid one
synchronize_rcu() call done after deletion from hash list, since caller
will perform a synchronize_net() call after its ndo_stop() call.
Add a new netdev->dismantle field to signal this dismantle intent.
Reduces RTNL hold time.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
CC: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_ethtool.c
net/core/dev.c
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Cool, how about we make 'Features changed' debug as well?
This way userspace can't fill up the log just by tweaking tun features
with an ioctl.
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Using plain hlist_del() in dev_change_name() is wrong since a
concurrent reader can crash trying to dereference LIST_POISON1.
Bug introduced in commit 72c9528bab94 (net: Introduce
dev_get_by_name_rcu())
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Those reduced to DEBUG can possibly be triggered by unprivileged processes
and are nothing exceptional. Illegal checksum combinations can only be
caused by driver bug, so promote those messages to WARN.
Since GSO without SG will now only cause DEBUG message from
netdev_fix_features(), remove the workaround from register_netdevice().
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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In commit 1c5cae815d19 (net: call dev_alloc_name from register_netdevice),
a bug of bonding was involved, see example 1 and 2.
In register_netdevice(), the name of net_device is not valid until
dev_get_valid_name() is called. But dev->netdev_ops->ndo_init(that is
bond_init) is called before dev_get_valid_name(),
and it uses the invalid name of net_device.
I think register_netdevice() should make sure that the name of net_device is
valid before calling ndo_init().
example 1:
modprobe bonding
ls /proc/net/bonding/bond%d
ps -eLf
root 3398 2 3398 0 1 21:34 ? 00:00:00 [bond%d]
example 2:
modprobe bonding max_bonds=3
[ 170.100292] bonding: Ethernet Channel Bonding Driver: v3.7.1 (April 27, 2011)
[ 170.101090] bonding: Warning: either miimon or arp_interval and arp_ip_target module parameters must be specified, otherwise bonding will not detect link failures! see bonding.txt for details.
[ 170.102469] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 170.103150] WARNING: at /home/pwp/net-next-2.6/fs/proc/generic.c:586 proc_register+0x126/0x157()
[ 170.104075] Hardware name: VirtualBox
[ 170.105065] proc_dir_entry 'bonding/bond%d' already registered
[ 170.105613] Modules linked in: bonding(+) sunrpc ipv6 uinput microcode ppdev parport_pc parport joydev e1000 pcspkr i2c_piix4 i2c_core [last unloaded: bonding]
[ 170.108397] Pid: 3457, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.39-rc2+ #14
[ 170.108935] Call Trace:
[ 170.109382] [<c0438f3b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x7f
[ 170.109911] [<c051a42a>] ? proc_register+0x126/0x157
[ 170.110329] [<c0438fc3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x2f
[ 170.110846] [<c051a42a>] proc_register+0x126/0x157
[ 170.111870] [<c051a4dd>] proc_create_data+0x82/0x98
[ 170.112335] [<f94e6af6>] bond_create_proc_entry+0x3f/0x73 [bonding]
[ 170.112905] [<f94dd806>] bond_init+0x77/0xa5 [bonding]
[ 170.113319] [<c0721ac6>] register_netdevice+0x8c/0x1d3
[ 170.113848] [<f94e0e30>] bond_create+0x6c/0x90 [bonding]
[ 170.114322] [<f94f4763>] bonding_init+0x763/0x7b1 [bonding]
[ 170.114879] [<c0401240>] do_one_initcall+0x76/0x122
[ 170.115317] [<f94f4000>] ? 0xf94f3fff
[ 170.115799] [<c0463f1e>] sys_init_module+0x1286/0x140d
[ 170.116879] [<c07c6d9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[ 170.117404] ---[ end trace 64e4fac3ae5fff1a ]---
[ 170.117924] bond%d: Warning: failed to register to debugfs
[ 170.128728] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 170.129360] WARNING: at /home/pwp/net-next-2.6/fs/proc/generic.c:586 proc_register+0x126/0x157()
[ 170.130323] Hardware name: VirtualBox
[ 170.130797] proc_dir_entry 'bonding/bond%d' already registered
[ 170.131315] Modules linked in: bonding(+) sunrpc ipv6 uinput microcode ppdev parport_pc parport joydev e1000 pcspkr i2c_piix4 i2c_core [last unloaded: bonding]
[ 170.133731] Pid: 3457, comm: modprobe Tainted: G W 2.6.39-rc2+ #14
[ 170.134308] Call Trace:
[ 170.134743] [<c0438f3b>] warn_slowpath_common+0x6a/0x7f
[ 170.135305] [<c051a42a>] ? proc_register+0x126/0x157
[ 170.135820] [<c0438fc3>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x2b/0x2f
[ 170.137168] [<c051a42a>] proc_register+0x126/0x157
[ 170.137700] [<c051a4dd>] proc_create_data+0x82/0x98
[ 170.138174] [<f94e6af6>] bond_create_proc_entry+0x3f/0x73 [bonding]
[ 170.138745] [<f94dd806>] bond_init+0x77/0xa5 [bonding]
[ 170.139278] [<c0721ac6>] register_netdevice+0x8c/0x1d3
[ 170.139828] [<f94e0e30>] bond_create+0x6c/0x90 [bonding]
[ 170.140361] [<f94f4763>] bonding_init+0x763/0x7b1 [bonding]
[ 170.140927] [<c0401240>] do_one_initcall+0x76/0x122
[ 170.141494] [<f94f4000>] ? 0xf94f3fff
[ 170.141975] [<c0463f1e>] sys_init_module+0x1286/0x140d
[ 170.142463] [<c07c6d9f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
[ 170.142974] ---[ end trace 64e4fac3ae5fff1b ]---
[ 170.144949] bond%d: Warning: failed to register to debugfs
Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <panweiping3@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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It will be needed by bonding and other drivers changing vlan_features
after ndo_init callback.
As a bonus, this includes kernel-doc for netdev_update_features().
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-3.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/benet/be_main.c
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Commit 443457242beb (factorize sync-rcu call in
unregister_netdevice_many) mistakenly removed one test from dev_close()
Following actions trigger a BUG :
modprobe bonding
modprobe dummy
ifconfig bond0 up
ifenslave bond0 dummy0
rmmod dummy
dev_close() must not close a non IFF_UP device.
With help from Frank Blaschka and Einar EL Lueck
Reported-by: Frank Blaschka <blaschka@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: Einar EL Lueck <ELELUECK@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/tg3.c
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Force dev_alloc_name() to be called from register_netdevice() by
dev_get_valid_name(). That allows to remove multiple explicit
dev_alloc_name() calls.
The possibility to call dev_alloc_name in advance remains.
This also fixes veth creation regresion caused by
84c49d8c3e4abefb0a41a77b25aa37ebe8d6b743
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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ioctl() calls against a socket with an inappropriate ioctl operation
are incorrectly returning EINVAL rather than ENOTTY:
[ENOTTY]
Inappropriate I/O control operation.
BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33992
Signed-off-by: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This makes sure that when a driver calls the ethtool's
get/set_settings() callback of another driver, the data passed to it
is clean. This guarantees that speed_hi will be zeroed correctly if
the called callback doesn't explicitely set it: we are sure we don't
get a corrupted speed from the underlying driver. We also take care of
setting the cmd field appropriately (ETHTOOL_GSET/SSET).
This applies to dev_ethtool_get_settings(), which now makes sure it
sets up that ethtool command parameter correctly before passing it to
drivers. This also means that whoever calls dev_ethtool_get_settings()
does not have to clean the ethtool command parameter. This function
also becomes an exported symbol instead of an inline.
All drivers visible to make allyesconfig under x86_64 have been
updated.
Signed-off-by: David Decotigny <decot@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Simplify and fix netdev_increment_features() to conform to what is
stated in netdevice.h comments about NETIF_F_ONE_FOR_ALL.
Include FCoE segmentation and VLAN-challedged flags in computation.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Since now when bonding uses rx_handler, all traffic going into bond
device goes thru bond_handle_frame. So there's no need to go back into
bonding code later via ptype handlers. This patch converts
original ptype handlers into "bonding receive probes". These functions
are called from bond_handle_frame and they are registered per-mode.
Note that vlan packets are also handled because they are always untagged
thanks to vlan_untag()
Note that this also allows arpmon for eth-bond-bridge-vlan topology.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Add const qualifiers to structs iphdr, ipv6hdr and in6_addr pointers
where possible, to make code intention more obvious.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
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NETIF_F_TSO_ECN has no effect when TSO is disabled; this just means
that feature state will be accurately reported to user-space.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The feature flags NETIF_F_TSO and NETIF_F_TSO6 independently enable
TSO for IPv4 and IPv6 respectively. However, the test in
netdev_fix_features() and its predecessor functions was never updated
to check for NETIF_F_TSO6, possibly because it was originally proposed
that TSO for IPv6 would be dependent on both feature flags.
Now that these feature flags can be changed independently from
user-space and we depend on netdev_fix_features() to fix invalid
feature combinations, it's important to disable them both if
scatter-gather is disabled. Also disable NETIF_F_TSO_ECN so
user-space sees all TSO features as disabled.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Now there are 2 paths for rx vlan frames. When rx-vlan-hw-accel is
enabled, skb is untagged by NIC, vlan_tci is set and the skb gets into
vlan code in __netif_receive_skb - vlan_hwaccel_do_receive.
For non-rx-vlan-hw-accel however, tagged skb goes thru whole
__netif_receive_skb, it's untagged in ptype_base hander and reinjected
This incosistency is fixed by this patch. Vlan untagging happens early in
__netif_receive_skb so the rest of code (ptype_all handlers, rx_handlers)
see the skb like it was untagged by hw.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
v1->v2:
remove "inline" from vlan_core.c functions
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/smsc911x.c
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* 'for-linus2' of git://git.profusion.mobi/users/lucas/linux-2.6:
Fix common misspellings
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This patch uses __copy_from_user_nocache on transmit to bypass data
cache for a performance improvement. skb_add_data_nocache and
skb_copy_to_page_nocache can be called by sendmsg functions to use
this feature, initial support is in tcp_sendmsg. This functionality is
configurable per device using ethtool.
Presumably, this feature would only be useful when the driver does
not touch the data. The feature is turned on by default if a device
indicates that it does some form of checksum offload; it is off by
default for devices that do no checksum offload or indicate no checksum
is necessary. For the former case copy-checksum is probably done
anyway, in the latter case the device is likely loopback in which case
the no cache copy is probably not beneficial.
This patch was tested using 200 instances of netperf TCP_RR with
1400 byte request and one byte reply. Platform is 16 core AMD x86.
No-cache copy disabled:
672703 tps, 97.13% utilization
50/90/99% latency:244.31 484.205 1028.41
No-cache copy enabled:
702113 tps, 96.16% utilization,
50/90/99% latency 238.56 467.56 956.955
Using 14000 byte request and response sizes demonstrate the
effects more dramatically:
No-cache copy disabled:
79571 tps, 34.34 %utlization
50/90/95% latency 1584.46 2319.59 5001.76
No-cache copy enabled:
83856 tps, 34.81% utilization
50/90/95% latency 2508.42 2622.62 2735.88
Note especially the effect on latency tail (95th percentile).
This seems to provide a nice performance improvement and is
consistent in the tests I ran. Presumably, this would provide
the greatest benfits in the presence of an application workload
stressing the cache and a lot of transmit data happening.
Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Issue FEAT_CHANGE notification when features are changed by
netdev_update_features(). This will allow changes made by extra constraints
on e.g. MTU change to be properly propagated like changes via ethtool.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
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In case the device where is coming from the packet has TSO enabled,
we should not check the mtu size value as this one could be bigger
than the expected value.
This is the case for the macvlan driver when the lower device has
TSO enabled. The macvlan inherit this feature and forward the packets
without fragmenting them. Then the packets go through dev_forward_skb
and are dropped. This patch fix this by checking TSO is not enabled
when we want to check the mtu size.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@free.fr>
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The mac address of the bridge device may be changed when a new interface
is added to the bridge. If this happens, then the bridge needs to call
the network notifiers to tickle any other systems that care. Since bridge
can be a module, this also means exporting the notifier function.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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The code itself can explain what it is doing, no need these comments.
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Implement compatibility with new hw_features for dev_disable_lro().
This is a transition path - dev_disable_lro() should be later
integrated into netdev_fix_features() after all drivers are converted.
Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch allows rx_handlers to better signalize what to do next to
it's caller. That makes skb->deliver_no_wcard no longer needed.
kernel-doc for rx_handler_result is taken from Nicolas' patch.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_cmn.c
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